Fiona Capp's Gotland

Fiona Capp's new novel Gotland is an intimate and melancholy story told to us by Esther Chatwin. Esther is a dedicated primary school teacher: she loves the wide-eyed enthusiasm of young children. But her job and her privacy are ripped from her when her husband David becomes leader of his political party, and then Prime Minister. Esther is battered by the unwelcome publicity and grows weary of David's compromises and self-absorption. Worse, she is now a leading a hollow life as the mistress of the Prime Minister's Lodge. Her life changes when she travels to the Swedish island of Gotland. Here she meets a gentle and reflective sculptor named Sven - a man who helps her find a way home. Fiona Capp's previous novels are Night Surfing, The Last of the Sane Days and Musk & Byrne.

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Fiona Capp

Author of Night Surfing, The Last of the Sane Days and Musk & Byrne. Non-fiction works include Writers Defiled, That Oceanic Feeling (2004 Kibble Award for Women Writers) and My Blood's Country, a reflection on the life and poetry of Judith Wright.